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Bernard Schopen
Full Series List in Order
Jack Ross
1 - The Big Silence (Dec-1989)2 - The Desert Look (May-1990)
3 - The Iris Deception (Sep-1996)
Book List in Order: 8 titles
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The Big Silence
- Dec-1989
- / Private Investigator
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IN NEVADA, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. IN NEVADA, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. A man may vanish in the vast deserts, dusty towns, or glittering cities of Nevada as easily as mirages form on the sun-baked playa or the neon-washed streets. Private detective J...
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Ross MacDonald
- Mar-1990
- / Suspense
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In this study of Ross Macdonald, Bernard A. Schopen focuses on the manner as well as the matter in Macdonald's narrative art, analyzing the development of central themes like abandonment, victimization, and the sources of human evil. His study provid...
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The Desert Look
- May-1990
- / Private Investigator
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Reno private eye Jack Ross has been living off the desert for six months when his idyll is interrupted by TV newswoman Miranda Santee, who wants his help on a story. Miranda has an old photograph of two Vegas showgirls who, the story goes, robbed a ...
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The Iris Deception
- Sep-1996
- / Private Investigator
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In this third Jack Ross mystery, the Reno private eye is hired by iris-eyed Patsy McLeod to resume a case abandoned as hopeless eighteen years earlier--the search for her missing teenage daughter Heather. This time, Ross's investigation leads him fro...
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Calamity Jane
- Nov-2013
- / Literary
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After publishing The Iris Deception, the final of his three Jack Ross detective novels, in 1996, Bernard Schopen’s literary voice went quiet. Nearly two decades later that voice makes a distinctive return with Calamity Jane, a novel that takes a ha...
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The Last Centurion
- Mar-2018
- / Literary
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Tad Fellows is an American graduate student working on an archaeological dig in rural England. He is also a wounded veteran of the Afghanistan war, where he found purpose and identity as a cog in the vast military machine of the U.S. Army. A quiet ma...
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The Dying Time
- Feb-2019
- / General Fiction
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In The Dying Time, Bernard Schopen delivers a thrilling and contemplative addition to the Jack Ross series. Jack Ross has settled into his old age as well as anyone can. He jogs. He eats right. He naps. He no longer involves himself with the acti...
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Drowning in the Desert
- Aug-2023
- / General Fiction
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Desert stillness meets the cacophony of Las Vegas.Norman “Fats” Rangle, an ex"deputy sheriff, operates a horse stabling and excursion business with his brother and sister-in-law on their family ranch in the small rural community of Blue Lake, a...